Manchester Metropolitan University are offering a PhD scholarship, beginning in September 2017. The project will explore the context and impact of child to parent violence. Its primary focus is how social care conceptualises and responds to child to parent violence, currently an under-researched area, in order to add new perspectives and inform policy and practice.

This timely research will explore the following objectives:

To review the evidence base for child to parent violence, including where there are gaps.

To explore the social care policy context for child to parent violence, with a focus upon how it is conceptualised, understood and explained.

To understand how far child to parent violence is related to other forms of violence and abuse, including whether and how it differs.

To explore how young people explain violence towards their parents; what led to it happening; the impact upon them and their families and how it was resolved.

To understand how social care professionals conceptualise the issue and operationalise responses to it. (How they seek to intervene to prevent it, stop it and ameliorate the effects of it on both the child and parent.)

To identify some of the policy and practice implications of child to parent violence for children’s social care and other key agencies.

Open to applicants from the UK and EU, more details are available here.